123dev #41: Skills, stories, and software every dev should know
Hi, This will be the last issue that goes out through Buttondown. After this week I will have completed my transfer of all posts over to Revue and I will be...
123dev #40: Skills, stories, and software every dev should know
via reddit Share this gif Comments Laying a trap for yourself I have lost track of how many times I've patched a bug only to have it come back and hit me in...
123dev #39: Skills, stories, and software every dev should know
via reddit Share this gif Comments People will game I twice had lunch with Ed Catmull at Disney and I asked him if there was anything that surprised him...
123dev #38: Skills, stories, and software every dev should know
Just a quick note, I'm not going to create unique titles for the newsletter anymore. I don't think it added any value and I didn't like doing it. Partially...
Exponential growth and shipping
via reddit Share this gif Comments Shipping products This past week I was part of the team that launched EKS Anywhere. Launching an open source project was...
Tools and workflows
via reddit Share this gif Comments Tools you’re familiar with The right tool for the job isn’t always the best tool. Some tools are made for a specific...
Mental health is health
via gifmemes Share this gif Comments Stress As a junior developer you get assigned work and have to implement it and solve problems within a certain scope....
The importance of docs
via reddit Share this gif Comments Puzzling Growing up my dad loved puzzles. He had the weirdest rule that I never understood. No matter how many pieces the...
Climbing the corporate ladder
via reddit Share this gif Comments Stealing The Corner Office I listened to this book and here are the action items to help you climb the career ladder into...
Please stop building custom CD tools
via reddit Share this gif Comments Your build tools are great, but no one wants to learn them I've never worked somewhere that had a completely off-the-shelf...
No code mo problems
via reddit Share this gif Comments Cher Ami Cher Ami was a messenger pigeon used by the American army in France during WWI. A battalion of 550 troops was...
Resiliency and new domains
via reddit Share this gif Comments Resiliency Code and systems break all the time. At a certain scale it's important that your start building software that...
What it's like to ship products
via reddit Share this gif Comments An industry secret For all the automation the technology industry prides itself in there’s still a lot of it that’s...
Working faster not harder
via reddit Share this gif Comments Code generators Lots of people recommend learning to program by starting with fundamentals. Learn the basic language...
Be kind and AWS Infinidash 🌩️
via YouTube Share this gif Comments Silent stories The ability to educate with stories is something humans are very good at. Videos are just a new(ish)...
Reliability is the most important feature
via reddit Share this gif Comments Simplicity vs User Experience Why do fans have that weird nob to turn on oscillation but they have buttons for speed...
Integration Test Email #25
via reddit Share this gif <- If you like this content I really would appreciate it if you tweeted this post. There aren’t a lot of subscribers but you can...
Declarative and imperative
via reddit Share this gif Comments Declarative and imperative Oftentimes in technology we say declarative things are better than imperative. Why write a...
Nostalgia technology, DNS, and lessons learned as a senior engineer
via reddit Share this gif Comments Nostalgia technology Looking back at old technology products most of the time I think how bad they were. Occasionally, I...
🐱🕯️ Curious tools and resume tips
via reddit Share this gif Comments Curiosity Sometimes our curiosity gets the best of us. I cannot count how many times I've run a command, changed a config,...